In this picture you are not seeing a simple girl who is being treated by doctors but the mummy of a 15 year old child who has been dead for about 500 years.She was discovered in 1999 near Llullaillaco's 6739 meter summit.She was nicknamed "La doncella" which means “The maiden”.
The mummy was suffering from an illness similar to tuberculosis when she was sacrificed sometime between 1450 and 1480 on the Argentinian volcano Llullaillaco, 22,100 feet above sea level.This is the best-preserved mummy ever found, with internal organs intact, blood still present in the heart and lungs, and skin and facial features mostly unscathed. The museum is displaying the mummy in a refrigerated, low-oxygen environment to reproduce the high-altitude conditions that allowed for its remarkable, natural preservation.
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